Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-09-30
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC,

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vers The engineer was ordered to pail on !
few miles The train was stopped on high /.
tiestle. The engineer ves made to pull ON !
until the express car was Off tbs tIestle. !
Here two other masked men joined ths robI !
beIs. The fireman and engineer were placed |
under guard A dozen shots were fired into
the express car, and the door was finally
opened by the express messenger. One rob
ber entered and cleared out the safe, and then
went through the mali car Every registered
letter in the car was secured by the robbers
The work was done in 10 minutes The tram
was through express from San Francia'o
The booty is placed at S3O,OOO. ILc same
train was robbed on the same treStle last
June. Guards were in the passenger coach,
but they were on the trestle. No attempt
-sas n1ade 10 nolest passengers.
Richard H. Allen & Co.; bankers and cot
ton commission merchants, have issued their
issue of the current cotton crop The yish
in Arkansas will be Is per cent. less than last
year; Texas slightly more than last year;
Louisiana greatly damaged by worms, yet,
owing to exceptional weather early in the
season, the yield will probably be a fraction
more than last year; Tennessee will fall Off
ot least . per cent Mississippi and Ala
bama about the same as last year; Georgia
barely as good North and South Carolina
promise much better yields than last year.
The circular concludes: Except in few
lDCdlllleS, WuST6 WOI'lIlS dDSSllL, anu WISlS
the second growth is making, chiefly in Texas
and Louisiana, the entire crop is made.
Heavy rains can only beat out open cotton,
injure grade and reduce the amount. We
estimate the crop at about $500, 900 bales.
This circular is made up from the widest pos
sible correspondence with reliable and repre-
sentative men throughout the entire cotton
growing States, anil the estimate is an aver
age based upon all reports received. On this
account it is valuable Information to all who
Gre interested in the cotton trade.
The Reading Coal and Iron Company
has given notice that broken and egg coal
for eastern shipment will be advanced Is
cents per ton each, to take effect at once. 1t
is also declared that there will be a general
advance in tho price of anthracite coal on
the lst Of October.
President Z. F. Leonard of tho Toledo, Peoria
& Western road, has filed with the state rail-
| road aud warehouse commission an official
report of the Chatsworth accident. The doc
umcnt says nothing of the circumstances
hnder which she train was wrecked nor does
it attempt to locate the responsibility for the
wreck The report estimates from the num-
ber Of tickets sold, that there were $40 per-
sons on the train, Of whom SO are now dead.
The number injured is given at 15l, 10 of
whom were employees of the road. Nine EN-
! ployes and l02 passengers have recovered
from their injuries, and 81 are still under the
| care of physicians. Three or four are not
tree from danger of fatal results
Charles E. Clinedist and G. NJ. Boden were
carriage manufacturers in StauntOn, w.,
| under the firm name Of ClinediSt q Bodell.
! In March last they fled to Canada, leaving
liabilities of S5OO0O to 100000, beside large
amount of forged papers. Detectives traced
them throughout Canada, until Clinedist was
run down at Brantford and arrested.
Bodell was arrested at Orillia, where he was
working at his trade.
The steamship State of Indiana, which ar
rived at New York recently, brought Capt.
Lawrence of the Boston ship Triumph, his
wife and children as cabin passengers, and
all of the crew as steerage passengers. The
Triumph left Liverpool on Aug. g. On the
! 25th she was struck by cyclone Her wire
! rigging was torn loose and lashed the spars
and yards to splinters. She shipped immense
quantities of water, which dissolved her
cargo Of salt and clogged the pumps so that
they would not work.
A construction train and light engine,
both moving at high rate Of speed, collided
on the Gulf division of the Southern Kansas
| railroad. Both engines and dozen freight
cars were demolished and piled in heap.
The engineer of the light engine was fatally
/ crushed and his fireman was seriously hurt,
and it is reported that eight or ten workmen
on the construction train were killed or
wounded
Citizens who h1vo returned from San
Pedro, Ari., state that all the crops on the
| bottom lands between Mammoth and Benson
have been entirely destroyed by the recent
foods.
| The street car drivers of Chicago have ac-
cepted compromise Of Il cents per hour,
with guarantee of 10 hours work per day.
Herr Most's organ, Der Freiheit, contains a
letter from Lingg and EngeI, the condemned
Chicago Anarchists requesting their friends
and comrades to abandon all efforts to secure
Justice for them.
The business portion of Sanford Fla, has
been burned; loss, $500, 600
A consolidation has been effected between
the Cleveland g. State Line, the New York,
Chicago & st. Louis and the Fort Wayne &
Illinois railro I'd companies This consolida-
tion covers the right and title to the entire
Nickel Plate road the name of which will
hereafter he the New York, Chicago & st.
Louis Railroad Company. A board of di-
rectors will be elected on Saturday which
will authorize the issue of 10000, 900 first
mortgage gold bonds bearing per cent. in
terest. The new company expect to take
possession of the road in October.
Mooney, the New York dynalniter, has
been pronounced insane.
A set of Pennsylvania triplets are named
Grover, Cleveland AMI Frances in honor OF
the President and his wife.
A reception and banquet has been rendered
to Frederick Douglass by the colored people
at Washington.
William Showers, 65 years old, was arrest
cd at Annvile May II, for numbering his
two young grandsons and confessed that he
Strangled them in order that he might marry
his houSekeeper, Elizabeth Sergeant, the i'm
plicatcd woman. Showers thus escapes &
trial While his confession was being reao
in court today Miss Sergeant rose, and IN c
loud voice said, That's darned lie"
The death order to the sheriff of CooE
county in, the Anarchists case has beel
handed down by the supreme court and i:
in the hands of Sheriff Mattson.
Fire destroyed $4,000 worth Of paper
stock at Baltimore
Hundreds of lives have been lost by thu
ri sing of the Nile.
A special from San Antonio, Tex, says
A posse was sent from the Unitod State
marshal's Office to Rio Grando City, n few
days ago, to capture gang of smugglers whC
were encamped about 80 miles from Laredo
They found the camp in tho brush near tht
river, and a demand for surrender was ans
wered by volley from WincheSterS A
battle ensued, resulting in the death of foul
of the slnugglers and the capture of the caml
and number of horses. The living SNUG
glers escaped by stampeding the horses anC
following through the gap in the line, taking
refuge on the Mexican side. None OF tn
officers were hurt,
The worlds conference of Quakers, til,
third meeting ever held in which the annua
meetings of Dublin and London have partici
pated had its session in Richmond, Ind. Tn
conference considered the question, sis it de
sirable that all yearly meetings held in th
world should adopt one declaration of Chris
tian doctrine" The sense OF the meeting
was announced by the chair as affirming th
question The chairman further announce,
that the sense of the meeting was that tn
church had mission to perform, and shoul